Humanoïde [English translation]

[First verse]

Have you ever been put down by the one girl you secretly loved?

Kind in private but, when in front of people, cruel and light

Have you ever hit someone just to be respected?

With no reason, have you ever regretted so much that you puked?

Have you ever said to yourself: "I need to do something, I'm not 16 anymore"?

To be just a lost soul now, to wander and lurk for hours

To see a guy get mugged, call for help and bleed everywhere

In the same traincar in which you were alone

Have you ever looked away? Disgusted by your own cowardice

Did you do crazy things afterwards to redeem yourself?

Is it because of that that you were violent when the teacher sacked you?

Have you ever related to Kourtrajmé's work?

Did you keep, back in the day,

Heavy family secrets that you can't even talk to your friends about?

Not even two bucks for a coffee, did you dream of hooking up with the waitress?

In the summertime, in Paris, in parks, you brought out your towel.

Have you ever felt exhilaration when picturing the sadness

Of those who know you if you blew your brains out?

Have you ever felt nature, so much that it was painful?

Would you like to leave, wishing good luck to all of your brothers?

Have you ever lied to yourself?

Were you surprised when you got told: "You're important to us, dude"?

Would you be faithful even terrified, with a gun to your head?

Are you ashamed of checking if you're hair looks good in the pic?

Have you ever broken the window of a shop with your bear hands?

Victims of bad feelings and stress that destroys our organs

Watching you blood drip, have you ever hidden

To count your cash until a cop knocks you out?

Do you wake up in the middle of the night? Another inspiration

Knowing that alcohol and spliffs damage body and spirit

Did you get back with her after she was unfaithful?

Do you forget that you hated her and you want her?

Did you have to fight instinct not to slap her?

Have you sworn that never again you would lose control this much?

Were you empty when they told you?

Were you mad at yourself for not crying for her death? Did you force yourself?

Did it come more recently, for a meaningless detail?

To the point that you wept all night long, listening to an old French rap tune?

[First bridge]

I didn't study, fuck politicians, I didn't go to the HEC

I don't need that to express myself when I see poor people in the street

I know shitty jobs, friends who leave, weed in the sock

I wondered for a while if I could do something but, now, I know

No, I didn't go to the ENA or Sciences Po', I didn't go to the HEC

I don't need that to express myself when I see poor people in the street

I know shitty jobs, friends who leave, weed in the sock

I wondered for a while...

[Second verse]

I come from a world where even the dead can be bought, I'm moving forward because the future appeals to me

And I answer the questions of the previous part/tune with a "yes"

No one to lift our burdens, what would you do in our shoes?

There are things that must be done alone, no one will be able to lick our wounds

For us, roaming the city with my dead cats

Sharing each grain, drowning our sadness in each drink

Soaked to the bone under the rain, feral cats

In this tasteless life, we are looking for yesterday's tastes

Meanwhile blood is shed, she is waiting for her savior, my princess

But, one day, I'll leave without anything, attracted to the opposite directions

This desire to rush when all the lights are red

I have a colorblind mind, you, you do wrong when you show off your right doings

My thoughts locked in sealed metal

An infinite love for my friends and family who forgive me, those who tolerate my ticks

Not much respect for label givers, since my heart is tiger-colored

Freezing blood under the fleece, I'm meditating

I'm talking to you about honnor, ethics, our parents suffered standing

Each victory, they're proud of us, for that we dedicate it to them

I've got the anger of the youths who are asked to choose a career all of a sudden

Who counseled the careers counselor?

My youth: its heart is bloody, the cash is going around

Taking advantage without caring gets you to jail

Forced to bury yourself in music, finding a fucking reason to live

I hit the walls but it sounds hollow

This is for the kids with weird looks, the thieves, the Elephant Men

Unstable guys who have fucking values but defend them poorly,

Humanoid

[Second bridge]

Entering this flat world doesn't do us good ; I'm gliding, is this desire?

I only fear myself because the wise man is not of those who fear the blade

Writer at night, I rap on the dunes for hours

A small grain of sand, solitude inspires me some tunes

[Third verse]

And I'm hearing all this rap within my skull, like mantras that shackle me

And, even when we will rise, there'll be something missing

As long as I go back to count my steps

The worst is to get that it was not that you were not loved, it was just that you were ignored

Worst than one of Asimov's robots, your life: a casino

You're almost free locked up in huge boxes

A beaten women gets scammed, disembodied carnage

Scarlet blood of the tiles, me, I keep it in a notebook

Too many kids in prison, run from this oppressing world

Too many precious moments, live in the moment

Fuck the watchmaker, you'd better think

Refugee family never rehomed

When I talk values, they tell me about first places

They scorn mastery, I master scorn

In spite of the mind, we are taken in the screams

Alone facing my reflection : no symmetry

And then I made the only one who loved me sad

The one who became infatuated with my sad fragments

And my regrets, my guts, because I've seen since then

My writing destroy her, depression making her thinner

When love makes you bitter, it comes inevitably

Like the end of a world where the dying sun is grey

Hurt like a hermit, I only describe eternity

Putrid becomes the mind shaped by modernity

I see only store fronts but, what glitters, we make it dull

Crises, crimes, screams, claws that we polish

[Third bridge]

This is for the faulty cyborgs, the Elephant Men

Unstable guys who have fucking values but defend them poorly,

Humanoid

[Outro] x2

As if it could bring me misfortune to believe in my own happiness

I think I suffered so much that it scares me

Another text full of confessions, for you, if love makes you blind

Why did I kiss her with open eyes?

• Artist:Nekfeu
• Album:Cyborg